A site and landscape plan has been submitted for a new 200,000-square-foot office building in Farmington Hills on this Ilitch family-owned land at 12 Mile and Drake roads.

The Ilitch family is seeking approval from Farmington Hills officials to build a 200,000-square-foot office building there.

City planning staff said Friday morning that an Ilitch affiliate, LC Trademarks Inc., is requesting site and landscape plan approval as well as a lot split for property at the southwest corner of 12 Mile and Drake roads for the development, which would also include an unknown amount of retail space.

Those items had been on a planning commission agenda last month but were pulled at the request of Olympia Development of Michigan, the Ilitch family's Detroit-based real estate company; they are now anticipated to be before the commission Aug. 15.

The staff member, who asked not to be identified, said 850 employees are to work in the building, based on information included in the documents submitted to the city. The property, long owned by the Ilitch family, is 35.5 acres and currently used as soccer fields.

Olympia said in a statement: "The land in Farmington Hills has been owned by our company for many years. We have submitted a site plan and lot split for consideration for future development opportunities. We have no definite plans to share."

The Detroit office of the architecture and planning firm Gensler and Troy-based construction company Kirco Manix are listed on the submitted documentation, according to the city planning staffer. Landscape architect Grissim Metz Andriese Associates in Northville and structural engineering firm Desai/Nasr Consulting Engineers Inc. of West Bloomfield Township are also listed, the staffer said.

An occupant for the office building was not listed on materials submitted to the city.

A development cost was not revealed, although real estate experts generally estimate about $250-$300 per square foot for new office construction, which would put the building cost at $50 million to $60 million.

The Ilitches, which own Little Caesars Pizza, the Detroit Tigers and Detroit Red Wings, have faced criticism recently over their District Detroit project in the city.

It's been five years since the 45- to 50-block effort to transform the area north of downtown was unveiled with plans for new residential, retail, office and entertainment developments, including Little Caesars Arena, which anchors the area. Opening in September 2017, the arena cost $862.9 million to build and has received $398.1 million in taxpayer subsidies and houses the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Pistons.

Beyond the arena, much of the area sits fallow with surface parking lots and vacant buildings. Residential plans have limped along or fallen by the wayside, and deadlines for residential and other projects have been missed, including on the site where the new arena sits.

In May, Christopher Ilitch, president and CEO of Olympia parent company Ilitch Holdings Inc., said in an interview with Crain's that the company's residential development "timelines proved to be aggressive," addressing some of the criticism about lack of apartments or other residential space built.

A groundbreaking ceremony for a new $70 million Detroit Medical Center Sports Medicine Institute took place three months ago and work on the $150 million Little Caesars Global Resource Center continues.

Work has started on the Hotel Eddystone redevelopment, a $40.9 million residential development of an empty former hotel building north of the arena, and the Columbia Street retail corridor is also under construction. The Wayne State University Mike Ilitch School of Business and a new office for Google have also opened.